Detectives

Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives Is A Spinoff Stuck In Limbo | TV/Streaming

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The titular private eyes are a pair of English schoolboys, Edwin Paine (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), who become ghosts after dying tragically at the same boarding school 70 years apart. Edwin, a closeted gay boy essentially hate-crimed into the underworld, died in 1916; Charles, a Thatcher-era British punk, shifted the mortal coil … Read more

In AMC’s Brilliant Monsieur Spade, Even the Detectives Come Hard-Boiled | TV/Streaming

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Rather than re-adapt “The Maltese Falcon” or any of the smattering of short stories Hammett wrote featuring the character (as literary legacies go, Spade’s was surprisingly short), Frank and Fontana, with the help of executive producer Barry Levinson, create a wholly original tale of the legendary gumshoe.  No longer in his prime, or in San … Read more